News of the slime Web site’s bankruptcy filing is schadenfreude-licious for those of us who, like wrestler Hulk Hogan and Silicon Valley financier Peter Thiel, were victimized by these Internet thugs but didn’t have the resources to fight back in court.

Gawker founder Nick Denton basked in the glow of the blogerati for years while cashing in on Internet trash. Now he’s rattling a tin cup. Karma’s a beautiful bitch.

Here’s something you may not know or remember. Dirty Denton didn’t just target celebrities with sex tapes. His lying, thieving, defaming Web empire had a special animus against conservative females.

In 2008, Gawker crapweasels published Sarah Palin’s hacked private e-mails, raided her family’s private photos by stealing them from the e-mail account, used Bristol Palin’s illegally obtained private cellphone number from her mom’s private account, recorded her voicemail message and posted it on their site, and reprinted her husband Todd’s private e-mail address and their son Track’s private e-mail address. The hacker was eventually identified and prosecuted. Gawker went unpunished, and most liberals laughed off the criminal privacy invasion.

In 2010, Gawker ran a lurid, paid anonymous hit piece on Christine O’Donnell by a slimeball who claimed to have had a one-night stand with the former Tea Party candidate from Delaware. It was a classic case of woman-shaming that even other left-wingers and the National Organization for Women disavowed as “public sexual harassment.”

In my case, 10 years ago in 2006, Gawker and its sister publication Wonkette knowingly published a fake photo of me purporting to show me partying it up in a bikini during a college spring break under the headlines “Michelle Malkin gone wild” and “Michelle Malkin, you ignorant slut.”

As with O’Donnell and Palin, it was an attempt to humiliate, degrade and punish me because of my gender and political ideology.

The image was a ridiculous Photoshop of a picture filched by an anonymous creep who stole it from the Flickr site of then-Ohio University student Ashley Herzog.

Both Ashley and I wrote the Wonkette and Gawker editors informing them of how her photos had been manipulated and requesting that they tell their readers what actually happened. Denton’s editors mocked us and then fecklessly claimed it was a joke all along.